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What happened to the pole at Alameda?
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:26 am
by jjm
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The thing was fine Sunday. Was there a freak tsunami on Monday?
p.s. is/was this the Alameda ikite sensor?
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:14 am
by panzerfaust
a trainer kite wrapped around it and took it down
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:51 am
by charlie
nice at lest its out of the way!
and no its not the sensor.
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:17 pm
by Hana
yeah thats true... I always had to look carefully my kite not to be close to that poll. now you can put some cool flag instead.
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:29 pm
by pipedragon
Don't get too excited. It happend before and they put it back up. Not sure what it does though?
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:41 pm
by jjm
By trainer kite, do you mean a school kite, or did a little Wasp or something take that down? I never inspected it, but it looked pretty solid?
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:40 pm
by OliverG
panzerfaust wrote:a trainer kite wrapped around it and took it down
A couple of years ago I was walking up the beach with a Naish X2 16m at high tide and just checking out the sun over the water. I looked up to my right and saw the kite drop over the top of the pole, then the lines started bending. I steered the kite and stalled it and luckily it just dropped down behind the pole. Mind the pole, huh?!
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:05 pm
by andyandmarlys
Appearantly the antenna is to control the pumps that supply the lagoons in Central Alameda with fresh Bay water...
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:13 am
by panzerfaust
jjm wrote:By trainer kite, do you mean a school kite, or did a little Wasp or something take that down? I never inspected it, but it looked pretty solid?
no, I mean a 1m trainer kite.